Anita Hassanandani Reddy Quotes
My role in 'Hero' is not a lengthy one but a powerful one. It was a nice opportunity, and I grabbed it.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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One shouldn't know the future.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
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Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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In fitness, there are no short cuts. It involves immense discipline and hard work.
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I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
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Before Disney, I did other shows so I was aware of the business. They're all the same in that they're a professional environment. The only difference between a Disney show and other network shows are in the age of the actors you're working with and the age of the intended audience.
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Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash earnings overseas tax-free.
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I think a lot of people, if they get the opportunity to do some acting, they think, 'I might be a star.'
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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My role in 'Hero' is not a lengthy one but a powerful one. It was a nice opportunity, and I grabbed it.
